Recipe - Hazelnut Oatmeal Cookies

3 tablespoon Unsalted butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One half cup Whole hazelnuts or natural
almonds; (about 2 ounces)
One half cup Firmly packed light brown
sugar
1/3 cup Allpurpose flour
3 lg Egg whites
One fourth teaspoon Salt
2 md Plums; (about One half pound),
; cut or sliced up thin
1 One half teaspoon Granulated sugar
Confectioner's sugar for
sifting over
; cake

ACCOMPANIMENT
Vanilla ice cream

Preheat oven to 425F. and butter and flour an 8inch round cake pan,
knocking out excess flour.

In a small saucepan melt butter over moderate heat and cool. Stir in
vanilla. In a food processor blend together nuts, brown sugar, and flour
until nuts are ground fine.

In a bowl with an electric mixer beat whites with salt until they hold
stiff peaks and fold in nut mixture gently but thoroughly. Fold in butter
mixture (batter will deflate) and spread batter in prepared pan.

Arrange plum slices evenly over batter and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Bake cake in middle of oven 20 to 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out
clean. Turn cake out onto rack and cool, plum side up, 5 minutes.

Sift confectioner's sugar onto cake and serve cake warm with ice cream.

One 8inch round cake.

Gourmet July 1995

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 1030 Calories (kcal); 36g Total Fat; (30% calories from fat);
16g Protein; 165g Carbohydrate; 93mg Cholesterol; 746mg Sodium Food
Exchanges: 2 Grain(Starch); 1 One half Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 1 Fruit; 7 Fat; 7
One half Other Carbohydrates

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.